'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
but I find myself caring less and less about what dudes want respected on their bodies when it is clear that respect for what I want to do with my own body, as a woman, is steadily and ENTHUSIASTICALLY eroded legislatively.
Exactly this. Dudes, we get that your man-parts are sacred to you. Our woman-parts are equally sacred to us. Therefore comprehend that endangering my woman-parts gives me reason to endanger your man-parts.
I'm pretty sure I'd be okay with kicking rapists in the nuts even if reproductive health wasn't under legislative attack.
I'm pretty sure I'd be okay with kicking rapists in the nuts even if reproductive health wasn't under legislative attack.
Oh my, yes.
wrod.
Also if someone is trying violence against me, and I have no safe options for retreat - if I have gun I will totally use it. (I don't own a gun, and if I were going to get one I'd get permit and training and only carry it where it is legal. But I don't know why if someone uses violence against me, a gun is excluded for self-defense.)
But the seat of your persona isn't actually between your legs...
For this guy, it just might be.
I would have been so tempted to yell "MR. BEEBE! MATCHES!!" at him.
Heh. I watched Four Weddings and a Funeral a week or so ago, so I was more likely to go with, "It's Brigadoon!"
"You know, if you go to first grade, and bite someone every day for a week, some folks are gonna think of you as a biter." --Art Mullen
why if someone uses violence against me, a gun is excluded for self-defense
Because some things are more important than losing the fight, worse than dying. And among those things? Is pride. If you have to stoop to levels to save your life, then how can you live with yourself afterwards? So you might as well die at his hands.
Really, ita, I don't know if you need to say anything except: "Well, if you come after me I will be taking several shots at your nuts if you leave that guard down. If that's a deterrent then that's the point."
The way Kelly pulled away the last nut shot cobwebs was thusly:
We're sparring, and she keeps nailing me in the groin. I'm trying to protect myself, but it's never really been an issue before, you know? "Why do you keep doing that?" I asked her. "Does it hurt?" she replied. I nod, she shrugs, and suddenly my groin kick defense got better and my groin kick itself...just...BAM! Reflex snap. All you have to see is that's open. Don't spend too much time paying attention to their sex or their gender.